* There were four unrelated leagues over history named "American Football League."
1) See comment box below.
2) No relationship to 1926 team.
3) In 1960, team moved to San Diego and the NFL after only one season in Los Angeles, then returned to Los Angeles in 2017 after 57 years.
4) Founded in Oakland in 1960, the team moved to Los Angeles in 1982. It returned to Oakland in 1995.
5) Team actually played at Honda Center in Anaheim, California (Orange County).
6) Founded in Cleveland in 1936, the team moved to Los Angeles and L.A. Memorial Coliseum in 1946. It moved to Anaheim Stadium in Orange County in 1980 and to St. Louis in 1995. The team returned to Los Angeles in 2016.

Neither the Los Angeles Buccaneers nor the Los Angeles Wildcats from 1926 ever actually play any games in Los Angeles. Both teams were road teams (the Buccaneers played out of Chicago and the Wildcats out of Moline, Illinois) but were named for Los Angeles in order to showcase football talent from California and the West Coast colleges. According to historian Michael McCambridge in his 2005 book "America's game: the epic story of how pro football captured a nation," the Buccaneers did actually want to play in their namesake city, but could not do so because the Los Angeles Coliseum Commission allowed no professional games in its stadium.